Università Roma Tre

The module aims to offer an organic overview of the main literary movements of the "Lungo
Eighteenth century" (from the Restoration to Romanticism - from 1660 to 1830), analyzing the evolution of the
various genres and, in the specific cultural context, the poetics of the most representative authors. The course,
Furthermore, it is proposed to provide the critical tools to enable the student to orient himself in the field of
of cultural and literary studies related to the period. Taking into account the objectives specified above,
texts from the Restoration and Romanticism will be read, analyzed and contextualized.

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Materiale didattico (Parte McCourt – 6 CFU)
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy
John Dryden “MacFlecknoe” (extract),
Alexander Pope, “The Dunciad” (extract),
Jonathan Swift, “The Lady's Dressing Room”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Reasons that Induced Dr S to write a Poem call'd the Lady's
Dressing room”,
Oliver Goldsmith, “An Elegy On The Death Of A Mad Dog”, “The Deserted Village” (extract)
Thomas Gray, “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat”,
Jonathan Swift, A Modest Proposal.
Materiale didattico (Parte Sacerdoti – 6 CFU)
William Wordsworth, Coleridge Samuel, Ballate Liriche, Mondadori 2003
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, Oxford Classics
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus, a cura di M. Butler, Oxford University
Press.
Percy Bysshe Shelley, La difesa della poesia-The Defence of Poetry, ed. bilingue, ETS 2004.
In concomitanza con l’inizio dei corsi verrà fornita una dispensa contenente materiale di studio.
Storia della letteratura (Restoration, Enlightenment, Romanticism)
Paul Poplawski, English Literature in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008). In
alternativa, a scelta A. Sanders, The Short Oxford History of English Literature, Clarendon Press,
1994; ed. italiana a cura di A. Anzi, Storia della letteratura inglese, 2 volumi, Mondadori
Università, 2001, oppure P. Bertinetti (a cura di), Storia della letteratura inglese, 2 volumi, Einaudi,
2000.
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